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Isn’t this redundant? The UN Outer Space Treaty already prohibits all WMDs in space, and all major countries have signed on.

States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

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yes but political pandering

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I think it might also be aimed at Russia because of the recent talks about space shenanigans

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Seeing as China and Russia have UN Security Council vetos I don’t see how this would pass.

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The UN is something everyone just ignores as we’ve learned over the last five months. Especially America.

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UN is useless for countries like Russia, china and US and it’s allies

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I might sound like an idiot but what is the thing in the center of the photo used in this article? At first I thought it was someone in a black robe and black veil making their case to the council which upon closer inspection can’t be true, then looking closer it looks like a filled trash bag in the middle of the council which makes even less sense.

What am I looking at here?

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Probably is a camera.

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Ah now I see it, thank you!

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TOPOTUN - The Other President Of The United Nations 🤖

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Anyone who can get a nuke in space already has nukes in space.

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Evidence?

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Yes.

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But that would mean there’s quite a few nukes up there already

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Maybe.

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